Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Train of thought(s)

    Train of thought(s)

    I spend my share of time on trains and amongst the commuter rage I spend a lot of that time thinking. Occasionally this leads to breakthroughs in things I have been working on but more often it just leaves half coherent, half crazed thoughts bouncing around in my noggin. So after 9 hours on a…

  • Innovation ain’t easy

        The New York Times is one of the worlds great newspapers. It has also had some great successes in the digital ages (the ‘Snowfall‘ concept was hugely influential for better or worse) but the internal ‘innovation’ report that was leaked to Buzzfeed this week shows just how difficult the shift to a ‘digital…

  • Trivial tech vs Civic Tech

    I used to love reading blogs like Techcrunch,Mashable and the Next Web. Anything really that was covering the next big web startup. I was fascinated with tales of tech entrepreneurs starting world changing ideas in garages and dorm rooms. I don’t really know when that changed but it did. I started to find the things…

  • Javascript journalism

    At the Data Storytelling event that I helped organise last week (the presentations are available if you missed it) the closing speaker, Martin Stable who is head of the Financial Times interactive news team, used the term ‘javascript journalism’ to describe the kind of outputs that combine journalistic storytelling and web applications (including data visualisations).…

  • Bristol: A City of Service?

    I spotted a job ad a couple of weeks ago for a ‘Chief Service Officer‘ for Bristol City Council. It wasn’t a job title I had come across before so I followed the link to the Nesta page about the Cities of Service programme and read with interest about its roots as an initiative from…